Check out the story here. Covers in detail what good and bad behavior, honest and dishonest, each side should and can expect from the other throughout the customer-lawyer relationship. A valuable field guide to what can and does go wrong, from the irrationally optimistic irresponsible misguided start to the almost inevitable acrimonious finish. 

• Covers all stages in the relationship from inception to meltdown

• Covers rational and irrational behavior, psychology, technical content, procedure, conventions, policies, practices and effectual and ineffectual, honest and dishonest, competent and incompetent regulation, supervision and scrutiny

• Contains detailed methodologies for the prospective and actual customer to preempt being the victim of any lawyer racket: deep due diligence throughout; the customer's own checks, logs, ledgers, archive, especially about issues, points, concerns, instructions, gross and net expenses, costs, prices, values; micro-scrutiny of all procedural and substantive points, issues, relationships, transactions and activities in the inner office, back office, front office, recourse, etc.

• Discusses how AI has fundamentally changed the practice of law in all locations (inner office, back office, front office, recourse, etc.) including re:-

  • law research

  • drafting

  • pleading

  • establishing and maintaining logs, ledgers, archives, books, accounts, evaluations and valuations  

  • monitoring, supervising, scrutinising, policing, costing, pricing, evaluating and gross- and net-valuing everything the lawyer does and does not do, especially what he has done dysfunctionally, dishonestly, incompetently, ineffectually, inefficiently, and all underlying situations, issues, points, positions, problems, intricacies, complexities, difficulties, relationships and transactions.


• Distils around thirty years of experience dealing professionally, and around fifty years dealing personally, with crooked tenth-rate specialist lawyers in various jurisdictions. Full of real-life practical examples, case studies, illustrations, graphics. A companion to Lawyer Rackets.